The Unleashing American Innovators Act, which formed part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, was signed into law by President Biden on December 29, 2022. This Act increased the discount on most patent-related fees payable to the United...

In support of President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot program, the USPTO announced that it will expedite the examination of patent applications that pertain to technologies to prevent cancer and cancer mortality. The program is set to begin on February...

An article by Ladas & Parry attorneys Dennis Prahl and Jerry Jakubovic about the trade dress case of SoClean, Inc., v. Sunset Healthcare Solutions, Inc., has been published in the World Trademark Review (WTR)  ...

The Administrative Council of the new European Unified Patent Court has stated that the target date for the EU Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court to come into effect will be on April 1, 2023. However, there is still a possibility that this may...

The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced that starting on December 3, 2022, those filing trademark applications will have three months (instead of the original six) to respond to office actions during the trademark...

In 1973 the European Patent Convention was signed in order to set up a common patent office to examine patent applications for any European country that wished to participate.  The convention went into effect in 1978 with the opening of the...